Man loses eye in vicious police attack

Last updated Aug 24, 2017 10,427

By Tarisai Machakaire

A Harare Magistrate was yesterday told how a Hatfield man and his wife were subjected to vicious assaults by members of the riot police who were controlling traffic at a busy intersection until the husband lapsed in a horrific incident which led him to lose one eye.

File picture of riot police at Harare Magistrates Court

Washington Gezana of St Patrick’s in Hatfield lapsed into unconscious after his eye was gouged from its socket following the blows from police batons.

The police officers are alleged to have sped off in a Land Rover Defender vehicle after “realising” that Gezana had lost his eye.